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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, LORENZO DOMINY, of Ottawa, in the county of LaSalle, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved Riding Attachment for Ploughs; and that the followingdescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms afull and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class,t0gether with such parts as-I claim, and desire to have secured, to me by Letters Patent. C i l This invention relatcsto a new and improved riding attachment, which is capable of having any ordinary tillage-plough attached to it. i k

The invention consists in a novel mannerof connecting the plough to the riding attachment, and in a peculiar construction of the latter, whereby it is believed that several advantages are'obtaincd over' the ordinary riding attachments in use. In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 is a side sectional view of my'invention, taken in the line a; x, fig. 2. Figure 2, a plan or top view of the same. Figure 3,":1. longitudinal section of a portion of'thc same, taken in the .line 3 3 fig. 2. Similar letters of referenceindieate like parts.. v A represents the draught-pole of the device, which has two axles B B attached to it, one, B, in advance of the other B, and the latter of reatcr len th than the other, and braced b a dis onal bar, 0, asshown clearly i g g y g in fig. 2. The wheels D I) turn loosely on their axles, and on the back mile the driver's seat E is secured, and

also thefoot piece F. G is the beam of'an ordinary tillage-plough, the front end of which has a clevis, '11,: attached, in which the lower end of a vertical rod, I, is fitted, the upper end of said rod being attached to one end of a bell-crank, J, the opposite end of the latter being connected by a rod, K, with a lever, L, secured to the rear part of the draught-pole. This lever may be retained at any desired point within the scope of its movement by means of a spring-catch, M, which may he made to engage with any of a series of holes in a seg ment bar, N, at'the rear end of the draught-pole. The beam of the plough, at a. short distance from its rear end, is connected by a stirrup, O, with the rear end of a bar, P, the front end of which is secured by a hinge, a, to the draught-pole A. The bar I? is fitted and works within a yoke, Q, which is attached to the rear part of the draught-pole A, and in this yoke there is suspended a rack, B, into which a fiixed plate or pawl, b, in the bar P, engages, the rack R being suspended in such a position relatively with the pawl that it will, by virtue of its own gravity engage with the latter, (see fig. 3.)

From the above description it will be seen that the driver, by pulling back the upper end of the lever L, i

will raise the front end of the plough-beam G, and when the front end or point of the share is raised, the plough; "will rise or pass upward out of the ground, and will be held upward .by the pawl bcatching into the rack B.

When the upper end of the lever L is thrown forward, the front end of the beam G will be lowered, and as the lever L is moved forward a cam, S, on the axis of the lever, will disengage the rack R from the, pawl} and allow the plough to descend to its work. The plough may be made to work to any desired depth by securing the lever L at the proper point through the medium of the springcatch M and the perforated segment N. The team is attached to the front end of the plough-beam G, and the draught-pole, when the device i is work, will be balanced, and no undue weight made to bear upon the horses necks. I would remark that one or more ploughs a i may be applied to the riding attachment, two on the same beam. p

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patient- 1. The attaching of the plough to the draught-pole A of the riding attachment, through the medium of the bell crank J, rods I K, and lever M, or their equivalents, for raising the front end of the beam, inconnection with thesuspended rack Rand the bar I, jointed or hinged to the draught-pole A, and connected with the plough-beam by the stirrup O, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The cam S on the axis or fulcrum-pin-of the lever L, in combination with the suspended rack R and fixed pawl b, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The axles B B projecting from opposite sides ofthe draught-pole A at difi'erent points, and braced by the diagonal bar C, when said parts are used as a riding attachment fora tillage-plough, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 4 p u a LORENZO DOMINY.

Witnesses i WILLIAM H. Connnn,

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